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How can companies and governments assess life and death risks?
Dangers in the Dust
The global asbestos industry and the campaign to ban its use on health grounds.
African corruption
Can the gains of corruption be recovered once the corrupt rulers have gone?
Banks: Money and Morals.
Niall Ferguson on Siegmund Warburg. What could today's bankers learn from him? Morality?
Iran: The Business of Revolution.
How did the Revoutionary Guard become a huge economic enterprise? A founder tells us.
All in the mind
Why do we spend less if we have a big note rather than smaller ones.
America's Stimulus
America's 787 billion dollar stimulus package, is it working? Steve Evans finds out.
BP's Chairman Speaks Out
The first interview with Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg after BP's boardroom shake-up.
Blood Diamonds, Twitter - And Legal Cannabis.
What to do about alleged violence around a Zimbabwe diamond mine. Plus, pot and Twitter.
Is the internet best for the young .... and younger?
How do young people drive innovation? And technology insights from Google Ghana's boss.
Banks, Beaches and Brazilians
Are bankers being wise or just self-interested with the latest plans for banking reform?
Harvard MBAs - arrogant and immoral?
The Dean of Harvard Business School refutes charges it helped to cause the credit crisis.
Tax is good!
Why a smile is bringing in more revenue for tax collectors in Sierra Leone
Networking: Is it what you know or who you know?
New and old ways to meet people, from Freemasons to Facebook plus speed networking
An immigration auction?
Nobel laureate Gary Becker argues that the right to move country should be auctioned
How to win friends and influence people
Why London city traders are taking up courses in 'ultimate violence' to protect themselves
All change for China's currency?
Is the loss of Chinese jobs a price worth paying to tilt its economy away from exports?
The Future of Television.
With 900 channels how to choose what to watch? The people shaping the industry tell us.
A Business Jihad?
The CEO of a huge Malaysian company wants a "business jihad" to lift Islamic economies.
No Oil. No Gas. No Problem?
Top scientists on how the world can stop using oil totally. Is nuclear the answer?
Nanny state or caring government?
Should sweet drinks be taxed so we drink less and get healthier? And money and football.
Advertising in Zimbabwe
One of Zimbabwe's biggest advertising firms says there is still no hope for rapid growth
The cost of low prices
Should governments put a cap on food and fuel prices to help the poorest in society?
Is private equity misleading investors?
Has the private equity industry been misleading investors about returns on their money?
Cars and culture
What cars say about America and the old Soviet Union
China's disguised bank loans
How China's banks hid the size of their lending, by disguising loans as investments.
Speculators and commodities
Are commodity prices too low? Is it right and fair for speculators to force them higher?
Is Europe's social model dead?
Is Europe's social welfare model unaffordable? And, should women show cleavage at work?
A brutal trade
The US law that tries to stop companies buying minerals which fund conflict and abuse.
Success in adversity
Why are there so few Muslim companies that make it onto the list of the biggest brands.
The road to the future?
Business Daily looks at voice control in the car of the future - would you use it?